Reviews
Cosán Casta
Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy
Cosán Casta means ‘winding path’, an apt title for this collaboration between fiddle player Aoife Ní Bhriain and pianist Cormac...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2026
Engrained
A purist’s delight. This is a debut album from a quartet of English fiddlers, all with firm reputations on the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/2026
Oli kerran ryytimaassa…
Pekko Käppi has helped revive the jouhikko, an ancient Finnish bowed lyre, by producing over 10 albums featuring the instrument...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: January/2026
Conflict
Pounding drums, driving electric guitar and forthright vocals – this is rock-folk rather than folk-rock. As Prior states on the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2026
Tanuevo
Bandonegro is a Polish tango quartet. Over the course of their 15-year career, they have developed a style that, inspired...
Reviewed by Gabriel Cócaro in issue: January/2026
Invented Folksongs
Anna Pidgorna is a Ukrainian-Canadian singer and composer, currently residing in Vancouver. Despite this album’s title, her works possess a...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: February/March/2026
Spíra
Ólöf Arnalds was part of the wave of Icelandic talent that swept into the broader musical consciousness in the early...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: February/March/2026
Plays Tanz! Live in New York City
Michael Winograd is one of the great klezmer clarinettists of our time – and his previous albums have received strong...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: February/March/2026
When It Rains It Pours
Tel-Aviv-based bassist Shay Hazan has released two albums foregrounding his playing of the Moroccan gimbri – and that sound makes...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/March/2026
Masonolay i Cepo’
The message is a celebration of Taiwan’s Indigenous culture. The medium is rock. Outlet Drift is a trio from Taiwan’s...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/2026
